Soldiers' Stories

Today we'll focus on the American soldier's experience in war by examining three sources:

1)We'll watch The Great War: Collapse from  33:45-40:52. The section uses Harry Truman's WWI experience as the lens to look at the impact that Americans had in the war. Students took notes as they watched.

2) We'll look at the story of Sgt. Alvin York where we used clips from the film Sgt. York (not exactly what we watched but close) in order:

• Sgt. York Agrees to stay in the army
• Sgt. York Battle Scene
• Sgt. York Receives Awards

3) Finally, we listened to Mr. Kramer read Ch. 10 from Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo aloud.

There were responses to each story in our notebooks when finished.